I think I mentioned that Mike's character is supposed to be a martial arts master of some sort, but he has to call out the name of the attack as he's doing it, a very anime thing to do. That meant I had to make up some names for his attacks, which I did with the help of some friends at college. "Flaming pink dragon kidney punch" was one of the better suggestions.

By the way, you might notice that this is the comic that went up on "9-11", and yet there's no mention of it. (Of course, part of that is because the comic went up the night before, hours before anything happened.) But even then, I never did anything out of the ordinary to mark the tragedy, probably because I didn't really feel it was appropriate to make mention of it in a silly webcomic.